“For a long time, I thought there was nothing I would not do, no length I would not go to, if only to undo it. To rewind that day. To bring her back. To make it right.” He sucks in a breath so deep, his whole frame expands. “It is only lately, for the first time in seventy years, that I have felt my first bit of respite from those pointless longings. For if she were still here…you would not be.”
